Igor Prikhozhai
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Igor Prikhozhai
Sumy, Ukraine

Igor Prikhozhai was born in Sumy, Ukraine in 1987. He dropped out of university after three years and opened a bookstore in Sumy. As a teenager, he discovered Nabokov. He would go on to translate Nabokov and Louis Carroll and created a YouTube channel where he discussed literature and his translations. He also wrote poetry. He joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a volunteer and was killed in action on November 15, 2025.

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book Queen
by Borys Khersonsky. Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum, translators

The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.

Iossel book
by Mikhail Iossel

The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the opposition of past and present in this groundbreaking collection of one-sentence stories: everything is simultaneous, breathless, in a dizzying spin of memory and imagination.

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by Yelena Matusevich

A collection of very short stories. In Russian.

 

Maxim Matusevich's book
by Maxim Matusevich

Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.

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